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Archive for September, 2010

The Epson Company rolls out the Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD, a stylish and compact multifunction device with quality printing, superior laboratory, as well as WiFi and Ethernet interfaces to work together on a network. Along with copying and scanning capabilities, the new model is capable of automatic duplex printing, which not only provides convenience but also a significant savings in the budget.

Work with the device is greatly simplified with the built-in card reader, 2.5-inch LCD display, and an ergonomic control panel so that you can view, edit and print photos directly from memory cards, USB-media and PictBridge-enabled digital camera. A compact, stylish design enables Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD not only fit into any interior, but also decorate it.

In addition, Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD has the function of print on CD and DVD-ROM, so users can easily arrange a collection drive at your leisure.

Epson Claria ink is perfect for printing high-resolution images obtained and compact amateur and professional SLR cameras. In addition, these inks guarantee the stability of photos to the water, light and mechanical stress. Family pictures will be stored in an album of more than 200 years!

Epson offers customers several solutions in order to save printing costs. Separate cartridges allow you to change only one color of ink, which has ended. You can also purchase ink cartridges of different sizes, based on the individual volumes and frequency of printing. A special cost-effective package of photo paper and ink cartridges can save more up to 50% of the costs.

The main features of the MFP Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD:

Printing of quality pictures, superior laboratory, through the use of dye-based inks Epson Claria ™

Easy operation thanks to the 2.5-inch display and a convenient control panel

Concise and stylish design suitable for any modern interior

Built-in network interfaces: WiFi for printing and scanning wirelessly and Ethernet to work together with the device

The Brother Company had a study conducted in a controlled environment to determine consumers’ reaction to promotional materials and the influence of printed material. It has been found that the printing on A3 format usually provides a competitive advantage, and, moreover, allows small companies to produce the impression of larger companies.

The study was conducted by Professor Richard Wiseman, one of Europe’s top human behaviour psychologists and a best-selling author.

The results show that companies using the wide format A3 printing for marketing materials look 21% more successful, 13% more competent and 12% larger than companies printing on A4 paper.

Commentign on the results, Professor Wiseman said that they were impressive, and they suggest that people make important conclusions about the company in few first seconds by viewing the promotional materials.

Professor believes that people probably don’t realize that they associate more wide-printed materials with more successful companies, and thus more inclined to deal with such organizations.

Xerox has announced that now users of the Enterprise Print Service (EPS) will be able to remotely print documents using mobile smartphones and tablets. With this service, customers can manage their printing tasks virtually anywhere.

The new feature is called Xerox Mobile Print Solution. It enables users to print out on remote printers e-mails, presentations and other documents from their mobile devices. The service supports any device that has access to e-mail. To print a document, a special security code must be sent to the server, after which the document will be printed and user receives a notification by e-mail.

Similar solutions are available from competitors. In particular, Hewlett-Packard offers the possibility of remote printing to the owners of Blackberry smartphones.

Remote printers must be compatible with the Xerox EIP software platform, which narrow the amount of available printers to only some products from WorkCentre and ColorQube series.

Xerox announced the launch of a new monochrome MFP A4 Xerox WorkCentre 3550 for medium and large workgroups. This unit allows you to optimize your time and money to solve everyday office tasks related to the document.

Requirements for customers SMB-segment to the equipment include a broad functionality, ease of use and administration, performance, and low cost of acquisition and ownership. WorkCentre 3550 MFP fits them perfectly.

The WorkCentre 3550 is designed to replace the market has already become classics MFP Xerox WorkCentre 4118 and WorkCentre M20/M20i. The new device not only has the advantages of its predecessors: the powerful features of the copier and the ability to replicate up to 999 with a single click, but also has a characteristic “plus”. Thus, the WorkCentre 3550 significantly increased the rate of printing, copying, and the maximum load, enhanced scanner and fax capabilities, added USB connector on the front.

WorkCentre 3550 – one of the most affordable office MFP A4 duplex ADF. For this device are available as standard cartridges and high-capacity cartridges, allowing saving on printing up to 30%. So from the standpoint of the cost of printing WorkCentre 3550 is a low-cost acquisition.

The new Xerox product has high quality (1200 dpi) and speed (up to 33 pages / min.) of printing. Through the optimal combination of performance and ease of use WorkCentre 3550 allows you to reduce the time spent on routine tasks related to the document. User-friendly menu helps users to perform daily activities more quickly. USB-port on the front panel allows you to quickly print files to USB and save it on your scanned documents. Standard paper input, characterized by large capacity (550 sheets: 500 sheets – the main tray and 50 sheets – versatile) and a maximum load of 1050 pages with an additional 500-sheet tray ensure continuous printing and copying when working with large volumes of documents. A full-duplex allows you to save not only time but also paper.

An important advantage of the WorkCentre 3550 is the ability to control sensitive information. Function secure printing and faxing can postpone printing documents up until the user releases the lock using a unique PIN-code.

WorkCentre 3550 is compact and easy to administer. Remote management CentreWare ® Internet Services provide monitoring devices in real time, setting the device, viewing levels of toner and paper, and timely order supplies.

The release of iOS version 4.2 in November Apple device will enable iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to support new technology AirPrint, which will allow these devices to wireless printing. “AirPrint represents a powerful new system for printing, with the ease of use comparable to iOS – no need to download, install and configure the drivers and additional software — said Philip Schiller, senior vice president of product marketing at Apple. – Users of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can one touch print documents and pictures wirelessly to printers HP ePrint or other devices for printing, connected to your Mac or PC”.

AirPrint finds available in the local area network printers automatically and allows you to send documents for printing via Wi-Fi. Here it is worth noting that the first support for direct printing with HP printers will support the service online printing ePrint.

“We are delighted to be working with Apple to include support for technologies AirPrint a new line of printers ePrint, we are releasing this fall before the holiday shopping season begins – emphasizes Vayomesh Joshi, executive vice president of printing and digital imaging software with HP. – The main objective of HP – to open the users to easily print the data at any time and anywhere. Members iPad, iPhone and iPod touch will appreciate the ease and convenience of instant printing pages on our new series of printers ePrint”.

According to Apple, the AirPrint technology is compatible with most modern printers – ranging from home inkjet and laser finishing office. Also, the iOS 4.2 devices can print on printers shared by computers running Mac or Windows.

A little more than a week has passed since the IFA 2010 ended in Berlin, but it still echoes with interesting developments. The whole world has long dreamed of an adequate version of a three-dimensional printer, which will create three-dimensional shapes at a reasonable price. Something remotely resembling this dream was presented at the IFA 2010, however, the figurines were created from the foam.

On the working surface of the printer appear simple objects, letters and numbers, that are cut off with a blade resembling an ordinary rail. Objects “printed” like this leave the nest and soar upward.

This system is, of course, will not fit for modeling prototypes in engineering. But in the filed of advertising, this printer is just the perfect tool: a company’s name or even logo flying in the sky will make the audience go wow. The only hope is that the foam is friendly to the environment, as nothing is reported on that.

The Canon company announced sales of high-performance monochrome laser printer with the ability to connect to the network, the i-SENSYS LBP6750dn. According to the manufacturer, this black-and-white laser printer is easily integrated into office environments. Reliable, fast, two-way mode of processing documents – it is a high-performance solution for workgroups.

The printer offers high speed printing: 40 ppm. Quick First-Print Technology from Canon ensures virtually zero warm-up time after the device from sleep mode and the output of the first page after 8 seconds. Create documents professional-level fashion using automatic printing on both sides. In addition, two-sided printing saves paper.

i-SENSYS LBP6750dn equipped cassette 500-sheet tray 100-sheet standard. At the expense of two more cassettes of 500 sheets of paper a share may be increased up to 1600 sheets. A built-in standard network port 100BASE-TX/10BASE-T, providing the opportunity to work with your printer. Installation, use and control unit are carried out from any computer on the network. With an optional module IEEE 802.11 b / g wireless connection is also available.

This printer can be used in all environments PCL with built-in support for PCL 5e / 6. Additional features support PostScript, and their own language print Canon – UFR II. C using the technology of automatic image enhancement (Automatic Image Refinement) is fashionable to get sharp text and detailed graphics by print resolution 2400 x 600 dots per inch.

5-line text on the LCD screen complements the animation that makes the printer easier and more convenient. Cartridge Canon «all-in-one cartridge and all the necessary details quickly replaced. High yield toner cartridge is also available which will print more than twice as many pages.

Recent Kodak developments in the field of multifunction devices have taken the form of the ESP 9250 inkjet MFP. This device combines the flexibility in the office use due to availability of Wi-Fi 802.11n and optional Bluetooth-adapter, and quite decent performance printing.

It can print directly from iOS-compatible devices (iPhones, iPods, iPads, etc.), has the maximum resolution for color printing of 9600 dpi, along with the ability to copy documents (scanning resolution – no more than 2400 dpi). The ESP 9250 can print 4 x 6 inch images on photo paper in less than half a minute, fax and copy made at a speed of 26 pages per minute.

Built-in Multi Card Reader “swallows” almost any card used in modern digital cameras. ESP 9250 is positioned as the flagship of the Kodak inkjet MFPs, so the price is appropriate – $250. You may start looking for this device somewhere in a month.

About 20, September, HP plans to present a quite interesting product, HP Photosmart eStation C510, which is a printer with a detachable Zeen tablet.

Interestingly, the tablet based on Android does not have the Gmail service, as well as Android Market application. Perhaps, Android is just a framework for the TouchSmart user interface. This device has a standard Android browser and a few Android applications to print images from Facebook, Yahoo, and Snapfish.

It is known that Zeen is a tablet with a capacitive screen, which runs on Android 2.1 (its retail version, oddly enough, is not equipped with webOS). The solution has an SD memory card slot, support for video, and some prototypes were even equipped with cameras.

Reading e-books is the main purpose of the Zeen tablet, that’s why it has an integrated support for the Barnes & Noble Nook store and ecosystems. Apparently, user would be enabled to print books with the tablet, which will allow HP to sell more ink. The touch screen is not very accurate and generally working with the tablet is far less convenient than with a good Android-smartphone, like Droid Incredible.

Zeen come in two configurations. The first is worth $400 and come bundled with a new Zeus printer, which can connect to the tablet and provide the user with a rich interface and advanced print management settings. Also, the Zeen tablet will be sold separately, but the price is still unknown.

Over the past few years, Epson inkjet printers and multifunction devices have gained a significantly part of the market. Today, home inkjet printers are actively used for printing school essays and study projects, materials from the Internet and other documents. Inkjet printer has also become an essential tool for photo enthusiasts allowing to supplement or completely replace the photolab. Fast, reliable and adapted for printing on plain paper business inkjet MFPs do not only print, but also scan, copy and send faxes.

Each category of inkjet printers and MFP users has different requirements for functionality, speed and design, as well as various volumes of printing. Yet, all users want printing to be as cost-effective as it gets.

Taking into account the different needs of users in the print volume, as well as the growing importance of cost-effective printing, Epson offers in 2010 a new system of marking cartridges Epson inkjet printers and MFP:

M – standard capacity cartridges are available for those who print a few times a month or less. The ideal solution for low volume printing.

L – High capacity toner cartridges for those who print often enough, for example, every week. A balanced solution for regular work with printers.

XL – cartridges extra-high capacity for those who print frequently and in large volumes. A unique opportunity to save on a constant work with a printer or MFP.

The new labeling is available for all new Epson Stylus and Epson Stylus Office printers and MFP released on the market in 2010.